Reading List

2026

Current reading: Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Thomas Ligotti

2026

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, Alice Evelyn Yang
Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung
Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges
The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro

2025

The Hearing Trumpet, Leonara Carrington
Down Below, Leonara Carrington
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
My Death, Lisa Tuttle
Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez
The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre
Endling, Maria Reva
The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
Wildcat Dome, Yuko Tsushima
Set My Heart On Fire, Izumi Suzuki
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez
The Fall, Albert Camus
The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk
The Exctintion of Irena Rey, Jennifer Croft
Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
City, Alessandro Baricco
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick

2024

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Scattered All Over the Earth, Yōko Tawada
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Private Rites, Julia Armfield
Butter, Asako Yuzuki
The Erstwhile, Brian Catling
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Walking Practice, Dolki Min
Money, Martin Amis
Lote, Shola von Reinhold
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2023

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
Audition, Ryū Murakami
Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt
Authority, Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
Borne, Jeff VanderMeer
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
The Vorrh, Brian Catling
The City & The City, China Miéville
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Dark Neighbourhood, Vanessa Onwuemezi
God Is Dead, Friedrich Nietzsche
Black Butterflies, Priscilla Morris
Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth, Henry Gee
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
The Leviathan, Rosie Andrews
Hare House, Sally Hinchcliffe
Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton
The Splendid City, Karen Heuler
The Classic Horror Stories, H.P. Lovecraft
Armadale, Wilkie Collins
Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Alone In Berlin, Hans Fallada
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
The Milkman in the Night, Andrey Kurkov

2022

The Fisherman, John Langan
Human Acts, Han Kang
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
Diary of a Void, Emi Yagi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Cabinet, Kim Un-Su
The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa
Cibola Burn, James S.A. Corey
1984, George Orwell
Anthracite, Matthew Thomas
Abaddon’s Gate, James S.A. Corey
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami